Morning Links: Art Portal Edition

The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art in Toronto will be moving into the first two and a half floors of the Tower Automotive Building, which will be renovated by late 2016 or early 2017. The move will cost the museum $6 million, and will triple its space. [The Globe and Mail]

An “art portal” in Washington D.C., created by Amar Bakshi, allows visitors to meet strangers from around the world. [ABC News]

Computer scientists show that artificial neural networks can create their own “Inceptionist” artwork, a style described as reminiscent of “William Blake on opium.” [Gizmag]

Art as a bartering tool is “a trade is a deeply ingrained ritual of incarcerated life. It is practiced informally or as part of established programs by a wide range of prisoners, many of them…with profoundly violent pasts and little art experience.” [The New York Times]